Personality is more than just
interaction in that it involves how you
fundamentally process and
react to
information.
A person with a
genial personality might get his foot stepped on in line at the
movie theater. He
processes the fact that his foot was stepped on, decides that it was obviously
accidental, and does not react, except perhaps to
politely request that the person not step on his foot.
Now take someone with a less
genial personality, perhaps a
burly redneck with
poor impulse control and a tendency towards
violent behaviour. He processes the fact that his foot was stepped on, decides that the person who stepped on his foot is
homosexual, because a
decent, God-fearing Christian heterosexual would never step on someone's foot like that. He then proceeds to
beat the living crap out of the poor
schmuck who stepped on his foot.